i use launchpad on my macbook all the time, to open my most-used apps (full disclosure: i have had the dock locked away since 10.3.9); a simple trackpad swipe, click on an icon, work. nice!
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macOS 13: All The Little Things
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I do the same. When I have all my apps in the dock my bad eyes sometimes has trouble finding what I need. Launchpad on my iMac has like, enormous icons so that’s not an issue 😝
This has made me sort my Launchpad out and put my main apps on the first page - I can access it any time by pinching 4 fingers (plus thumb works too) - and potentially use it instead of the dock. Let's see.
Edit: Having discovered I can change the number of rows and columns, it's starting to look ok, and less like a toy (aka iPad).
Edit: Having discovered I can change the number of rows and columns, it's starting to look ok, and less like a toy (aka iPad).
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int x
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int y
killall Dock
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It's stable, I've had zero issues on any of my devices.
I do and find it quite useful, it really does feel unloved though having been essentially unchanged for over a decade now. I also dislike how it takes over the whole screen.
Personally I'd have it be a pop up from the Dock which then shows you Recently Used Apps, a grid of Favourite Apps you can pin, and then All Apps.
my dock is permanently locked away (been doing this since 10.3.9); don't like it using screen real estate. so for me, it's all dashboard... and spotlight sometimes.
Safari now has vertical tabs in the side bar. Click the arrow by any tab group, or just your current session, and it lists all tabs.
Apparently the track pad videos will be returning to the settings app in a future beta so that’s something.
Amazing, removing helpful stuff was stupid idea in first place.
it's a beta; in fact, the first beta. maybe they chose to get the new settings up & running, and planned to bring back the videos... in a later beta (am just speculating of course).
people don't seem to understand the beta concept. and as i've mentioned before... wait till us public beta users show up on the forum; then all hell will break loose... 🤪
EDIT: lol, and it's a first developer beta. if any developer out there doesn't know how to use the trackpad on their mac, they should have their developer license revoked 🤣
Here's a random cute thing I discovered while doing a fresh install today: in languages that use gendered nouns you're asked for your preferred gender.
You can pick male, female or go the neutral route and have sentences constructed in a way that doesn't reference your gender
You can pick male, female or go the neutral route and have sentences constructed in a way that doesn't reference your gender
My favourite new feature is that on my 2020 iMac 27" it kernel panics every 40 seconds from boot (have tried clean install as well as upgrade). I'll try again with beta 2 but keeping to only Monterey for now. A shame cause I want to play a lot more with Distributed Actors. Oh well, can still play with it to some degree from Monterey and iPadOS 16 which runs quite well for me.
(KPs have been reported)
(KPs have been reported)
AFAIK this is not a new feature. macOS 12 and iOS 15 have this too, but I think it is limited to Spanish. It seems that they have extended it to Italian though.
As casperes1996 correctly pointed out, some languages rely on the term of address to inflect words that are directed at the user. English does not have this problem, at least not that I am aware. I do not think that this feature applies to grammatical gender in general, only for this particular use case.
Craig Federighi recently said those videos will come in a new format in a future beta, they were not ready in time for beta 1
Craig mentioned in an interview that the are working on a replacement for the videos, some type of enhancement to them.
How did I not know about this? Fantastic trick! I agree this makes Launchpad much more useful.
FontBook has been redesigned with SwiftUI
FontBook has been redesigned with SwiftUI
He's right. The application, "5 Guis" does confirm that Font Book from Ventura is using SwiftUI. Comparably, when examining Monterey's Font Book, no SwiftUI is declared in "5 Guis".
With that said, @ErikGrim how are you able to tell?